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BALE TIE FASTENING.

No. 290,549. Patented Dec. 18,1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM A. DU BOIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOCHARLES O. HALE, OF SAME PLACE.

BALE-TIE FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,549, dated December18, 1883.

Application filed October 29. 1983. (No model.)

adapted to wire ties; and it consists in the peculiar manner of twistingthe wires, hereinafter specified, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings.

In Figures 2 and 5, A represents a wire such I 5 asis used for tying hayor other material, one

end of which is twisted round itself to form the elongated loop B.

Figs. 3 and 6 represent the other end of the wire which is bent in thefollowing manner:

A curve or neck, C, is formed a suitable distance from the end. The endD is then bent round to form a loop to a proper distance, where a shortturn is effected to form the catch E.

Fig. 6 is substantially the same as above,

with a small piece of wire twisted in with the main wire at the curve orneck C, to give more strength for baling heavy material. When the wireis passed round the bale, the loop B is passed under the loop D at thepoints F in Figs. 1 and 4, and over the curve or neck C. The catch E isthen forced into the curve or neck C, thereby securing the loop B firmlyin its position and completing the fastening, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.The loop B being thus secured, it is obvious that a double bearing isobtained on the wire at the points of contact with the neck C and catchE and the loop B at the points a a a.

I am fully aware that it is not new to form a bale tie or fastening withthe main wire which surrounds the bale, and I do not therefore claimsuch, broadly, as my invention; but.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The wire A, bent and twisted to form the loop B, and the other end ofthe wire bent to form the curve or neck C, with the extreme end bent toform the-loop D and catch E, substantially as herein set forth, the loopB brought together in connection with the neck or curve C and secured inplace by the catch E, substantially as set forth.

' WM. A. DU BOIS.

Witnesses EDWARD H. BOW'MAN, MICHAEL L. FREIBERGER.

